Lenka Fafkova

Lenka Fafkova (died 24 October 1942) was a Czechoslovak Resistance member who took part in Operation Anthropoid in 1942.

Biography
Lenka Fafkova was the daughter of a Czechoslovakian army officer who had been arrested by Nazi Germany in 1939 for opposing the occupation of Czechoslovakia; Reinhard Heydrich had her father and 5,000 other prisoners executed when he came to power in September 1941. Fafkova and her friend Marie Kovarnikova were both convinced to join the Czechoslovak Resistance in 1942, with Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis recruiting them; Fafkova became Gabcik's lover. She played an active role in the preparations for Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, and she was arrested in May 1942. Fafkova was sent to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp alongside several other resistance members, and she was shot on 24 October 1942.